WARREN ELLIS is a graphic novelist, writer, public speaker and author of the NYT best-selling novel GUN MACHINE.

T-shirt Of The Week #008: SCROTUMPUNK

Published December 14, 2009 by Warren Ellis

TOTW is basically a joke that Ariana and I pull each week in our joint guise as the International Electrophonic Unit. Basically, we take some of the stupider things I’ve said on Twitter and elsewhere, often in a state of extreme alcoholic refreshment or severe sleep deprivation, and put them on a t-shirt. Ariana set up a Cafe Press store (because this is a joke and engaging with a serious maker of t-shirts would be less funny to us), and… well, once a week, here we are.

Through this website and this Cafe Press store, we’re going to release one t-shirt a week. It’ll go live on Monday… and it’ll die Sunday night — midnight UK time, more often than not. Each one lives for a week, and then it’s replaced by the next week’s shirt. Until I either run out of dumb ideas or Ariana’s brain explodes.

maybe it’s just me, but since the terms cyberpunk and steampunk imply that humans are powered by cybernetics and steam, respectively, wouldn’t it mean that scrotumpunk is a designation for people powered by scrotums? the design shown is more of a steamscrotum idea which, while interesting, i think falls short of a world powered by testicles and semen.